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On December 1st, a business executive named Meng Wangzhou was arrested while transferring through the Vancouver airport. Her arrest came at the request of US authorities, who are seeking her extradition to the United States. Ms Meng is the CFO of the Chinese ...

On October 17, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize the recreational use of Cannabis. The first was Uruguay, which decriminalized Cannabis a few years ago. But Canada's move is arguably more significant to international relations for t...

(Ottawa, Canada) — Ottawa is a natural home to an outfit called the Global Center for Pluralism.
As other western countries have closed their borders to refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, Canada became more welcoming. It has done so by relying most...

America's neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment.Last week, Canada announced its "first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive public consultations which took place last summer in more than 300 sessions involving over...

The Global Fund is a giant pool of money created in 2002 to address the three leading killers around the world: AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It's main contributors are governments, though private organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also...

The Liberal party in Canada, lead by Justin Trudeau, shocked the world with a big, big win in hotly contested national elections. The Liberal ascent ends a near decade in power for the conservative Stephen Harper and has the potential to fundamentally re-b...